Misc. Notes
According to Richardson, this Mary Bacon was “born say 1635, daughter of Michael
2 Bacon (
Michael1) of Woburn, Massachusetts, and his first wife, Mary (_____); she was living on 22 October 1701 (NEHGR 63 [1909]: 319). For her parentage, see ‘Groton Documents,’ by Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. (NEHGR 41 [1887]: 262-63).
“Mary has sometimes been identified with a distant English cousin, Mary Bacon, who was baptized at Winston, County Suffolk, England, on 18 February 1625/6, the daughter of Michael and Mary (Jeve) [[Richardson’s footnote: “Not
Jobe or
Jobo, as often stated.”]] Bacon. While such a child and parents did exist, this individual is a different person from the Mary Bacon of New England who married John Lakin. Not only does the chronology not agree, but the parents of this Mary Bacon, baptized 1625/6, never [[p. 148]] immigrated to New England. Rather, the parents were still living in Winston, county Suffolk, as late as 1640, when they had a son, Michael, baptized in that parish. (Modern transcript, Winston, co. Suffolk, parish registers [FHL film #992, 006].)
“Following their marriage, John and Mary Lakin resided in the new settlement of Groton, Massachusetts, where they lived the remainder of their lives. In 1656 (about the time of their marriage), John Lakin and several other Groton men petitioned the General Court regarding an abatement in taxes and laying out the town’s boundaries (
Groton Hist., 12-14).”
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